Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?